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<\/p>\nWoo-hoo: 1 April! I bet you thought I\u2019d forgotten to post \u2013 but it is not so! I was just waiting on time zones and for 1 April on the Supernatural Underground (US EST-zone.) \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
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So, ta-da! \u2013 #3 in the Year of the Villain series features Brandin of Ygarth in Guy Gavriel Kay\u2019s Tigana<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n And yes, I have used the words \u201cinteresting\u201d and \u201cnuanced\u201d in discussing him. \ud83d\ude00 If you want to find out why, rock on over to the SU:<\/p>\n And in terms of last month\u2019s question, i.e. \u201cif you think there\u2019s a treatment of villainy that departs from the Tolkien or Le Guin models\u201d<\/em> I believe Brandin does \u2013 for the reasons that led to my \u201cinteresting and \u201cnuanced\u201d observations.<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n Woo-hoo: 1 April! I bet you thought I\u2019d forgotten to post \u2013 but it is not so! I was just waiting on time zones and for 1 April on the Supernatural Underground (US EST-zone.) \ud83d\ude00 So, ta-da! \u2013 #3 in the Year of the Villain series features Brandin of Ygarth in Guy Gavriel Kay\u2019s Tigana. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42062,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42060\/revisions\/42062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tigana-184x300.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThe Year of the Villain #3: Tigana<\/em> & Brandin of Ygrath<\/a><\/h3>\n
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